Ethan Donowitz
Senior Software Engineer, Persistence Infrastructure at Discord
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Donowitz is a systems- and infrastructure-focused senior software engineer with ~3 years of professional experience building high-performance, production-grade services in Rust and Tokio. He’s driven end-to-end projects that reached millions of users, most recently contributing to persistence infrastructure at Discord after work on a partially-stateful, incrementally-maintained distributed SQL cache at ReadySet. His background spans browser- and backend-oriented companies including Mozilla and Grubhub, giving him a practical blend of low-level concurrency, storage systems, and real-world production reliability. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed design into deployable systems, and he’s comfortable owning a feature from design through rollout. Notably, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a product-minded focus on incremental, maintainable improvements.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (25)
mysql-database10
rust-lang10
caching10
postgresql-database10
postgresql10
mysql10
databases10
sql10
rust10
backend10
caching-proxy10
streaming-data10
database10
scalability9
quicksort6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
readysettech/rust-rocksdb
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
rust wrapper for rocksdb
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
readysettech/readyset-rails
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Readyset + Rails integration gem
Contributions:1 release, 72 reviews, 53 PRs in 3 months
cachepostgresrailsreadysetruby
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